Between IP and AI: Generative AI continues to grow
A new report from the World Intellectual Property Organization highlights a massive surge in generative AI patent filings, which nearly doubled between 2024 and 2025. While China remains the leader in total volume, the United States and Japan are showing significant growth in the sector.
Why it matters
The rapid increase in patent activity reflects the intense global competition to secure intellectual property rights in the foundational technologies driving the AI revolution.
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), as is becoming increasingly clear, is no longer merely a technological trend. It is a revolution that is transforming industries, reshaping business models, and disrupting the labor market. It is penetrating almost every field - from software and content development to finance and medicine - and confronting businesses and regulators alike with fundamental questions: Who will lead the transformation, who will be left behind, and how, in practice, will humanity develop and advance in the future?A new report by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on patents in the field of generative AI confirms the view that this is indeed a revolution and presents fascinating data on the relationship between intellectual property and technological development.The report's key findings indicate that the growth rate of GenAI patents rose sharply over the past year, and the number of patent families in the field nearly doubled between 2024 and…
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